The pair also were charged with tampering with evidence and police say additional charges are pending.

In a press release, TPD Spokesman Officer Damon Miller said that Mathis, Smith and Coachman planned to commit a robbery during a drug buy at the neighboring Monterey Apartments.

Smith and Coachman were charged “due to their involvement in the robbery that led to the death of the decedent,” Miller wrote.

Xaiver Coahcman is being charged with felony murder and tampering with evidence in connection with the shooting death of 17-year-old Cobi Mathis Monday.(Photo: Leon County Detention Center)

According to court records, Mathis arranged the drug buy at the apartment complex with an unknown person.

“In the hours prior to the transaction, the victim had discussed his desire to commit a robbery,” TPD officers wrote in their report detailing Coachman’s arrest.

Coachman told investigators he and Smith stayed in the car and that during the drug deal, Mathis and the person he was meeting exchanged gunfire. Mathis fled on foot jumping the fence of the apartment complex after being shot.

Jordan K. Smith, 18, faces charged of attempted felony murder and tampering with evidence in connection with the slaying of Cobi Mathis on Monday.(Photo: Leon County Detention Center)

He ran to the front door of the Franklin Academy day care and banged on the door for help.

Staff reported they heard more than a dozen gunshots before a vehicle pulled into the parking lot and continued shooting, killing the teen.

Coachman and Smith fled to another apartment complex north of the day care and hid in the woodline. After the shooting stopped and the suspects fled, Coachman told police he ran over to Mathis' on the ground, saw he was dead and retrieved a handgun, according to court records.

Coachman then gave the gun to another person, described as Subject 1, to get rid of it.

The case is still being investigated and there are other wanted suspects, Miller said.

The mid-day shooting stunned friends and family who arrived on scene as investigators canvassed the two apartment complexes and collected evidence from the day care. They gathered on the lawn of a nearby church where they wept and waited for answers.

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Family and friends of a 17-year-old teen killed in a shooting Monday on Old Bainbridge Road mourn in the yard of a neighboring church.(Photo: Karl Etters/Democrat)

Smith has a pending charge from December for carrying a concealed firearm. He was driving a GMC Yukon SUV reported to be holding five suspects in an armed carjacking on South Magnolia Drive.

TPD found the vehicle backed into a parking spot at a South Adams Street townhouse and approached, noticing the smell of marijuana. Officers found a loaded .45-caliber handgun on the driver’s floorboard easily within reach of Smith.

Smith’s attorney Chuck Hobbs did not return calls for comment.

Coachman is a convicted felon. In November, he was adjudicated guilty of burglary of a conveyance and dealing in stolen property. He was on felony probation through 2023.

Contact Karl Etters at ketters@tallahassee.com or @KarlEtters on Twitter